Severe WX March 21-23 2022

[Taylor Campbell]

Ugh looks like we lost a radar to a tornado.

 

[warneagle]

Another shot of the tornado in the Taylor area. My jaw is on the floor.

 

[cincywx]

TDAL also took a direct hit

 

[Austin Dawg]

TDS was scanned at under 300' off the ground at 2320 UTC. That was likely sayonara for KGRK.

Jeff Mangum is showing damage. The sun is out behind this line and it is vert muggy. I don't know if this cluster of storms is moving east and we are in the clear west of I-35 our there might be more development.

The Granger radar is out and may be hit. Elgin is under the gun right now

This doesn't happen here

 

[warneagle]

Jeff Piotrowski says there's still a large tornado on the storm that took out the Granger radar.

 

[cincywx]

brandon clement got hit by a tornado

 

[CheeselandSkies]

Storm Prediction Center Mesoscale Discussion 295

Severe weather, tornado, thunderstorm, fire weather, storm report, tornado watch, severe thunderstorm watch, mesoscale discussion, convective outlook products from the Storm Prediction Center.

www.spc.noaa.gov

DISCUSSION...Multiple supercells, thunderstorm clusters, and linear
segments have developed across the western portions of Tornado Watch
#054 over the past couple of hours, with a history of tornadoes near
Jacksboro and Bowie Texas. Storms continue to develop ahead of a
Pacific front/dryline just west of the I-35 corridor, and are
advancing east into a buoyant airmass. These storms are also
progressing toward the axis of the low-level jet, where greater
moisture and low-level shear exist (per 22z mesoanalysis). 20Z RAP
forecast soundings (valid for 22-00Z) show large, curved hodographs
downshear of the ongoing storms). As such, tornado potential is
expected to increase through the remainder of the afternoon into the
evening hours.

Of particular concern are the supercells along a line from Burnet to
Guadalupe Counties, which are tracking in an thermodynamic
environment characterized by 2000+ J/kg MLCAPE. Given the storm mode
and aforementioned buoyancy/shear, a heightened tornado threat may
develop. Any supercell that becomes dominant/discrete (relatively
pristine inflow) will have the greatest risk for producing strong
tornadoes, and a long-lived, long-tracked tornado cannot be
completely ruled out.

 

[southmdwatcher]

No radar to cover College Station or any of the other towns in that vicinity.

 

[CheeselandSkies]

Jeff Piotrowski says there's still a large tornado on the storm that took out the Granger radar.

PDS warning on that, and no good radar.

*Edit: And on the Elgin storm, too.

 

[kcyalater]

bad, bad day unfolding in texas.

 

[OHWX97]

Elgin, TX is in a world of hurt. Destructive tornado heading directly for town.

 

[Fred Gossage]

The NWS there has available to it the TAMU S-Band radar data in real-time.

 

[Tennie]

The NWS there has available to it the TAMU S-Band radar data in real-time.

Do you know of any public access to the radar data from that site?

 

[Clancy]

 

[Fred Gossage]

Do you know of any public access to the radar data from that site?

None that I am aware of. Unlike the NEXRADs, it is a privately owned university radar. I know a few universities make their radar raw data public, but the majority don't.

 

[Austin Dawg]

Elgin, TX is in a world of hurt.

PDS just added on this storm

 

[warneagle]

Andy just tweeted that KGRK survived! (Obviously this does us no good now without the data but at least it's not actually destroyed)

 

[CheeselandSkies]

Wonder if/when they will pull out the TORE...hopefully if they use it at all, they use it better than PAH for Mayfield etc.

 

[OHWX97]

Temple, TX may be taking a direct hit from a possible tornado. Hard to tell without KGRK.

 

[CheeselandSkies]

Is this a massive TDS? Looks like its somewhat displaced from the couplet, but hard to tell from a radar that far away.